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RTGI 0.16 Release!

Added 2020-09-28 15:43:06 +0000 UTC

As mentioned before, shader updates will be posted here as well, not only on the Discord server. Now I didn't keep up this promise for 0.14 and the intermediate 0.15 release earlier this month and also don't have a video ready (took some time off), but this version will make up for it. The story so far:

0.13 and 0.14 are based off a flawed method to increase rendering speed, sadly this didn't work out as planned, in 0.14 I tried to improve the filter to counteract the sometimes extreme noise that 0.13 exhibited.

In 0.15 I decided to scrap the feature. 0.11 was the most popular version used so the goal was to match 0.11 in terms of performance and responsiveness, but surpass its quality. As evidenced by your reactions to it on Discord, 0.15 knocked that out of the park. I also added a new feature that uses a different ray intersection test that produces more natural lighting and shadow placement.

0.16 now adds a new feature: with the press of a button (or the check of a box), it allows to render a still frame progressively with maximum possible quality, just like in Blender or such.

Simply freeze your game, check the box, wait for the image to settle, take a screenshot and toggle the feature off. Easy as that. For more details, refer to the UI tooltips when hovering the mouse over a section.

For more details, please refer to the changelog on Discord. For installation help, see my wiki , for usage and set up check the new help section in the UI of the shader itself.

Have fun!